Product Manager

Marketing

Anywhere

Posted November 29

Overview

Wikimedia is looking for an experienced and collaborative Product Manager for our Editing team, to help build features that enable our communities to achieve our Vision: a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

Product Managers at Wikipedia work with researchers, engineers and designers to build features, products and services used by hundreds of millions of people around the world. This is an opportunity to ‘do good’ while having a high level of impact on a large-scale media property.

As a Product Manager, you will:

Ideate and develop new products to enable the world to consume information and participate in information production.

Work with a highly talented team of engineers and designers to define, design, and build features that delight users

Understand the needs of users in order to prioritize new features and product enhancements for the development team

Release early and often, getting feedback from users to help improve features

Use both qualitative and quantitative methods to measure the impact of features

Make a difference in the world!

Requirements:

Product Management experience on a consumer-facing web property

Experience working in an agile software development environment

Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

Passion for participatory (vs. read-only) experiences on the web

Pluses:

Experience editing Wikipedia or contributing to other Wikimedia projects

Experience building for mobile

Experience with open source software development

The Wikimedia Foundation is…

…the nonprofit organization that hosts and operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge, free of interference. We host the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive financial support from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.

The Wikimedia Foundation is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply